Here’s some news that brings a swarmy smile to my face!

Yesterday afternoon, The Oklahoman – the state’s most trusted source of right-wing propaganda –  announced that after a century of only endorsing conservative candidates for public office, they will stop issuing political endorsements all together as opposed to endorsing an actual Democrat.

Well, basically…

Opinion: Getting out of the political endorsement business

Throughout its long history, The Oklahoman has made it a point to endorse candidates for political office, whether for local races such as mayor or national offices such as president or Congress. That practice is ending this year.

This decision was not made lightly. We both understand, and respect, the historical role of endorsements from the newspaper’s editorial board. The reality, however, is that it is time to change course.

Yep, that’s right. Instead of falling on the conservative sword they’ve been sharpening since the early 1900s and endorsing Joe Biden over Donald Trump, The Oklahoman is just doing away with endorsements altogether. Basically, they’re taking their ball of propaganda and going home. You have to love it.

Of course, The Oklahoman won’t admit to that being the reason why they’re doing away with endorsements. In a nod to the mental gymnastics the paper would pull over the years when it would endorse a right-wing conservative candidate over a more qualified moderate or liberal opponent, the paper tried to spin the decision as logical and rational.

Here’s more:

Back in May of 2015, a couple of weird, narrow, half-finished miniature medians seemingly popped-up overnight in the hipster bar crawl section of N. Western Ave.

Outside of irritating drivers, keeping tire shops in business, and giving credence to the OKC City Council theory that medians are dangerous hellscapes to stand on, we had no clue what they were there for. As a result, we decided to call them the “WTF Medians” and sent Louis to investigate. This is how he described them:

Within one day of appearing, it’s white, freshly dried concrete finish quickly became tarnished with one black rubber burn after another, with a nice collection of hubcaps gathering on both sides of the street. As I was taking the pictures for this piece, a small sporty car skidded right into it, popping of a hubcap with prestidigitatious timing.

Please tell me, road crew, did you mean to do this? Was it a mistake? A joke? An act of vengeance against a community that somehow wronged you?

Naturally, our article pissed off the carpetbaggers who ran the Western Avenue Association. They told us the miniature medians were called Chicanes, and they were being installed as a fancy, decorative way to improve public safety. It made sense. As we all know, nothing is safer than standing on the side of the road, dodging hubcaps, as cars violently swerve to the side to narrowly avoid hitting the random, tiny median stuck in the middle of the street.

Sadly, after a five year run of making unsuspecting motorists say “What the f*ck is that?!”, it looks like the medians are coming to an end.

Via KFOR:

As you know, The Lost Ogle is an industry leader when it comes to shaming people on the Internet for not wearing facemasks.

It’s a pretty easy beat to cover in Oklahoma. Thanks to our Governor, Governor’s wife, Kong’s Tavern, OU and OSU Students, Edmond shoppers, the Salon Stalker, and my personal favorite, The Mulleted Marksman, there’s never a shortage of mask-shaming content to sink our teeth into. It’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, only produced in our trademarked scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel type of way.

On that note, we obviously couldn’t turn down the opportunity to shame KFOR’s Peyton Yager, News 9’s Ashley Holden, KFOR’s Jess Bruno and KOCO’s Christine Stanwood – the “Squad” of OKC TV news media – for going maskless while frolicking in the golden-brown water at Lake Arcadia.

Check out this pic. It was shared on Instagram, but for some reason was removed after we hit the publish button: